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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians
A commentary of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians first collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching, and now out of Latin faithfully translated into English for the unlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...A commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians first collected and gathered vvord by vvord out of his preaching, and novv out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the vnlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling wihtin sic, 1575London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling vvihtin sic, 1575
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse. 15. Which had separated me from my mothers womb.
Verse. 15. VVhich had seperated me from my mothers vvombe.
This is an Hebrew phrase. As if he said: which had sanctified, ordained, prepared me. That is, GOD had appointed ⟨image 44⟩when I was yet in my mothers womb, that I should so rage against his church, and that afterwards he should mercifully call me back again from the middest of my cruelty and blasphemy by his mere grace, into the way of truth and salvation. To be short, when I was not yet borne, I was an Apostle in the sight of God, and when the time was come, I was declared an Apostle before the whole world.
This is an Hebrew phrase. As if he sayde: which had sanctified, ordained, prepared me. That is, GOD had appoynted ⟨image 44⟩when I was yet in my mothers wombe, that I should so rage against his church, and that afterwards he should mercifully call me backe againe from the middest of my cruelty and blasphemy by his meere grace, into the way of truth and saluation. To be short, when I was not yet borne, I was an Apostle in the sight of God, and when the time was come, I was declared an Apostle before the whole world.